| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Study Withdrawn | Before | After No |
| Field Intervention Completion Date | Before | After March 14, 2021 |
| Field Data Collection Complete | Before | After Yes |
| Field Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) | Before | After 608 |
| Field Was attrition correlated with treatment status? | Before | After No |
| Field Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations | Before | After 608 |
| Field Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms | Before | After 307 individuals in baseline condition, 301 individuals in treatment condition |
| Field Public Data URL | Before | After https://zenodo.org/records/5652808#.YsGYbXZByUk |
| Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After No |
| Field Program Files | Before | After Yes |
| Field Program Files URL | Before | After https://zenodo.org/records/5652808#.YsGYbXZByUk |
| Field Data Collection Completion Date | Before | After March 14, 2021 |
| Field Is data available for public use? | Before | After Yes |
| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After This article investigates how incentives and behavioural policy interventions affect individuals’ allocation of scarce cognitive resources. Based on experimental evidence, we demonstrate that incentives systematically influence individuals’ allocation of cognitive resources, and their propensity to actively engage with a decision or to stay passive. Policies that steer individuals’ attention to a specific decision lead to more active decision-making and better choices in the targeted choice domain, but induce negative cognitive spillovers on the quality of choices in other domains. In our setting, these two countervailing effects offset each other, such that the overall payoff consequences of the interventions are essentially zero. We further document that cognitive spillovers are especially pronounced for complex choices and for subgroups of the population with a smaller stock of cognitive resources. We discuss implications for the design and evaluation of behavioural policy interventions. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Steffen Altmann, Andreas Grunewald, Jonas Radbruch, Interventions and Cognitive Spillovers, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 89, Issue 5, October 2022, Pages 2293–2328. |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdab087 |